A recent wave of attacks targeting SonicWall customers has researchers and authorities on alert. Many victim organizations had misconfigurations in their systems.
The company said a threat actor accessed and snooped around its account for months, then stole OAuth tokens for Drift integrations from its cloud environment.
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From left, Tanium’s Sam Kinch, GDIT’s Matt Hayden, the Commerce Department’s Ryan Higgins, and CISA’s Chris Butera take part in a panel discussion at a GDIT event on Sept. 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)
The actively exploited defect, triggered by an attacker’s use of a publicly available sample machine key, underscores the vendor and customers’ poor configuration practices.